Another Country

About this book

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way.

Subjects

  • african american gays
  • african americans
  • african americans -- fiction.
  • african americans, fiction
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • blacks
  • classic literature
  • fiction
  • interracial sex
  • man-woman relationships
  • modern literature
  • new york (n.y.) -- fiction.
  • prejudice
  • race relations
  • racism
  • racism -- fiction.
  • social conditions
  • suicide
  • suicide victims
  • suicide victims -- fiction.